Q: When is HP getting more HP TouchPads? One week, two weeks, a month?

A limited supply are coming and it will be a few weeks before they are available. As we know more about how, when, and where TouchPads will be available, we will communicate that here and through email to those who requested notification. We can tell you that HP’s Small and Medium Business team has sold out of HP TouchPads and will not have more inventory.

Q: Can you comment on whether HP had to manufacture more to meet the recent demand?

HP will be manufacturing a limited quantity of TouchPads with webOS during our fourth fiscal quarter 2011, which ends October 31.

Q: Will HP continue to make more TouchPads with webOS to meet the demand?

HP is discontinuing the development of webOS devices and is winding down device operations within our fourth fiscal quarter 2011.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

I heard about at the end of Tech News Today, as Tom Merritt was tying up the close when News Break flashed on his computer and his Reporters instincts kicked in. He read the initial News Break: That Steve Jobs was stepping Down as CEO of Apple.

"The cover," writes Isaacson in private e-mail, "is the Albert Watson portrait taken for Fortune in 2009. The back is a Norman Seeff portrait of him in the lotus position holding the original Macintosh, which ran in Rolling Stone in January 1984. The title font is Helvetica. It will look as you see it, with no words on the back cover."

I told her to hold off for a bit (Geek-Speak), because a new updated version was being released this week too.

Forgetting that I was running 4.0b7 I went to the download page and grabbed 5.0. It took longer than it had any right to because it removed my handy toolbar and replaced it with what I call Bloat-Ware. That got me mad and after another 1/2 of getting my new install back to where it should have been, I published the following gee-I-was-proud-of-myself Post:

A couple of days later, I saw the New Updated Firefox was 6.0 Not 5.0.

Huh?

How Did That Happen?

How the Flub Happened.

Then I remembered, I installed 5.01 a while ago and found a lot of plugin problems so I reverted to the then stable 4.0b7 and the plugin-problem was gone and

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I started in computing selling the TRS-80 many years ago in the early 80's and got hooked when I bought my own Coco (Color Computer). I've had a computer ever since.
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